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Show The men who spit on the sidewalk should bo classed with those who convey food to their mouths wlth,a knife, pick their teeth with a fork, blow their nose with their lingers and wipe tho lesldue on the scat of their trousers. There is no more excuse for a man spitting on the sidewalk than there is for him. spitting In the center of the parlor table each time he passes it. Most of the men who do this would resent with physical force the Intentional In-tentional splashing of a little mud on the clothing cloth-ing of a feminine relative as far distant as a 'sixty-fifth cousin, yet in their thoughtless, don't care fashion they deposit on the cement walks every rive steps great gobs of nasty, dirty, rotten expectoration for some woman's skirts to pick up in passing. There is more roomUn'Hic streets for this vile expectoration and It Is the pioper, the gentlemanly, the considerate thing for eveiy man and boy to go over to the edge of tho walk when he must spit and there deposit his excretions. Wc believe be-lieve this, that the public will uphold the police olllclals In any determined effort to break up and disperse the crowdsof young men who gather on the walks of evenings and there as they talk and chew spit to such an extent that when they 'leave the spot looks llko a hog wallow. We believe ln every man having every possible ficetlom as long as he uses it legitimately legiti-mately but when he Imposes on the public's good nature and health, he should be taught a lesson. . |